MISTRESS OF SCIENCE! Mwah ha ha ha.
(Actually now with PhD, but Doctor of Philosophy just doesn't have the same evil ring, does it?)

Sunday, November 14, 2004

I forced TheLimey to read Asimov's The End of Eternity, which I suspected he would like as much as I did. I hadn't read it in many years, maybe since my teens, and was surprised to find that it had weathered the years extremely well.

As I was reading it, I thought to myself, "Wow, for something written in the '50s, this somehow managed to remain very undated--even the descriptions of technology seem contemporary!" Then I seem to remember looking at the copyright date and it being in the '30s, which blew me away.

...But now I can't find any reference to its being anything other than 1955, when it was published, and TheLimey has my copy so I can't look inside to see what the heck I was looking at!

Well, anyway--it's still a damn good book. One whose plot hasn't aged in all this time. It makes a lot of current authors look like they're writing cheap retreads. And I hear that the plot twists kept TheLimey awake until 1am a couple of nights. Heh.

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Still, your point about his incredible foresight still stands. Asimov is one of my favourite science fiction authors. I studied alot of robotics at university and it's amazing how often something he wrote comes up in real robotics.

Noooo, now I'm stuck in one of those time loops. Asimov goes forward in time, sees the future, comes back, predicits it, it happens because he predicted it, but how could he have gone into a future that only existed because he predicted it as he hadn't yet predicted it and made it happen. Arggggghhh. *brain explodes*